Numbers 22 to 28 and Attached Area Railings
NUMBERS 22 TO 28 AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS, 22-28, PORTLAND SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1202444
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 22 to 28 and Attached Area Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 22 TO 28 AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS, 22-28, PORTLAND SQUARE
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1202444
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 22 to 28 and Attached Area Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 22 TO 28 AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS, 22-28, PORTLAND SQUARE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 22 TO 28 AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS, 22-28, PORTLAND SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Bristol (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 59386 73772
Details
BRISTOL
ST5973NW PORTLAND SQUARE, St Paul 901-1/6/1904 (North side) 08/01/59 Nos.22-28 (Consecutive) and attached area railings (Formerly Listed as: PORTLAND SQUARE (North side) Nos.22-28 (Consecutive))
GV I
Terrace of 7 houses. 1789-1820. By Daniel Hague. Limestone ashlar, brick stacks and slate mansard roof. Double-depth plan. Late Georgian style. Nos 23, 25 & 28 are 4 storeys; 4-window range, the rest 3 storeys; 3-window range, with basements and attics. A formal symmetrical composition in which the middle and end houses project slightly; a rusticated ground floor, pilasters from the first-floor plat band to a modillion cornice and parapet; the centre has pilasters with bases and acanthus capitals and a plain square-headed doorway with a fanlight in a rectangular overlight. Doorcases are placed toward the centre with Ionic columns and modillion pediments, batswing fanlights and 6-panel doors; rusticated voussoirs to the ground-floor windows and plain voussoirs above, to 6/6-pane sashes; the end gables have a large central semicircular-arched doorway with a Gibbs surround, similar stair windows and lunettes above the cornice, and openings either side with 5 stepped voussoirs. Nos 23 & 24 completely rebuilt c1973 as replicas to complete the terrace. INTERIOR: details in No.27 include a central lateral stair well top lit by a conical lantern, open-well stair with column and urn balusters and curtail, fluted Tuscan and Corinthian pilasters to semicircular and segmental hall arches with panelled reveals, modillion cornices and panelled shutters. The other houses have been largely remodelled c1980. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: spear railings to basement areas. The corner pilaster of No.28 is inscribed PORTLAND SQUARE and CAVE STREET. Part of Bristol's '...most complete and beautiful square' (Gomme). (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 209; Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bristol: Bath: 1952-: 220; Dening C F W: The Eighteenth Century Architecture of Bristol: Bristol: 1923-: 53).
Listing NGR: ST5936473790
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380188
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 209
Dening, C F W, The Eighteenth Century Architecture of Bristol, (1923), 53
Ison, W, The Georgian Buildings of Bristol, (1952), 220
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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